South Dakota executes inmate who killed prison guard in 2011
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A South Dakota inmate was executed Monday for killing a prison guard in a failed escape seven years ago in the state’s first execution since 2012.Rodney Berget, 56, was put to death for the 2011 slaying of Ronald “R.J.” Johnson, who was beaten with a pipe and had his head covered in plastic wrap at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. It was the state’s fourth execution since it reinstituted the death penalty in 1979, and the first since […]
